Forestry Association of North Rhine-Westphalia

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The Waldbauernverband Nordrhein-Westfalen eV , based in Münster , has been the free association of private forest owners in North Rhine-Westphalia since it was founded in 1947 .

In North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) 150,000 forest owners manage around 600,000 hectares of private forest . With a private forest share of 67%, it is the federal state with the highest private forest share in the Federal Republic of Germany. As its members representing the interests of its members in terms of forest policy, the aim of the forest farmers' association is to secure, promote and increase the efficiency of private forests. At the same time, he strives to strengthen forest ownership with its diverse uses, protection and recreational functions.

The forest farmers' association advocates the economic use of forests in North Rhine-Westphalia through sustainable forestry, even in the field of tension between different political interests. The Warburg Agreement is an example of how to balance a conflict of interest between private management and nature conservation . Another concern of the association is to sensitize forest owners as primary producers, as well as consumers and builders as buyers, to the economic and ecological advantages of the raw material wood and to communicate forest management as the basis of an important value chain . In North Rhine-Westphalia, the forest and wood cluster with its forest-wood processing chain comprises 257,000 jobs.

history

The first day of forest farmers in Arnsberg on May 20, 1947 can be considered the founding day of the North Rhine-Westphalia forest farmers' association . On this forest farmers' day the union of the Westphalian forest farmers' association and the forest owners' association of the North Rhine -Province took place. This foundation had an eventful history.

In the area of ​​what is now North Rhine-Westphalia there were a number of forest owner associations in the Weimar Republic :

  • the Westphalian Forest Owners Association (Chairman: Graf von Westphalen-Fürstenberg)
  • the Association of Silviculture Associations of Westphalia-Lippe (Chairman: Karl Rentrop)
  • the association of community forest owners in Westphalia (Chairman: Freiherr von Ascheberg)
  • the working group of the Westphalian forest owners associations and the chambers of agriculture (managing director: Forstrat Baumgarten)
  • the forest owners association for the Rhine Province (chairman: Graf von Westerholt)

These were the seizure of power has been dissolved by the Nazis 1,933th

After the Second World War , local organizations were re-established by forest owners. The first organization to be founded was that of the Arnsberg district group after two forest owner meetings on April 15 in Arnsberg and on May 21, 1946 in Soest.

A merger at the provincial level took place on May 17, 1946, when the Westphalian Forest Farmers Association was founded in Münster. Almost 1,000 people attended the inaugural meeting. On September 28, 1946, the Forest Owners Association of the North Rhine-Province was founded in Bonn.

After the merger of the associations in 1947, the office was initially located in Fürstenberg before being relocated to Meschede in 1948 . In 1968 the seat was moved to Münster . The office is currently in Düsseldorf.

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